Hoax politics: blogging, betrayal, and the intimate public of A gay girl in Damascus

Cardell, Kylie, and Maguire, Emma (2015) Hoax politics: blogging, betrayal, and the intimate public of A gay girl in Damascus. Biography, 38 (2). pp. 205-221.

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DOI: 10.1353/bio.2015.0021

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Abstract

Blogs can connect disparate "others," or focus attention on certain events, moments, or histories, but to what extent does the blog function within (or trouble) the paradigms of identity politics that also frame autobiographical narration in online contexts? This paper is a close analysis of A Gay Girl in Damascus, a fast moving case of online imposture that emerged in conjunction to the "Arab Spring" and catalyzed a host of issues connected to the representation, articulation, and circulation of marginal identity in online spaces.


Item ID:	57258
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1529-1456
Keywords:	hoax, autobiography, online hoax, digital media, blogs, identity, Arab spring, activism
Date Deposited:	28 Mar 2019 02:15
FoR Codes:	20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2005 Literary Studies > 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes:	95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9502 Communication > 950203 Languages and Literature @ 100%
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